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Summary

Chinese cinema continues to go from strength to strength. After art-house hits like Yellow Earth and In the Mood for Love , Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon launched the new century by disproving the old myth that subtitled films could not succeed at the multiplex. Chinese Films in Focus II updates and expands its predecessor: Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes with fourteen new essays, providing, in total, 35 in-depth and original readings of an individual Chinese film. Films from Mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other parts of the diaspora are all represented, and the historical coverage ranges from the 1930s to the present. Leading international experts including Rey Chow, Yingjin Zhang, Berenice Reynaud, Kam Louie and Mary Farquhar join younger scholars to address significant and popular films such as Hero , Farewell My Concubine , Chungking Express , Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon , Blind Shaft , Suzhou River and many more. This volume will be essential reading for students and fans of Chinese cinema.

Author Biography

Chris Berry is Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Table of Contents

Introduction: One Film at a Time, by Chris Berry1. 15: Deciphering the Local and ?Slanging Up? to the Global, by Song Hwee Lim2. Big Shot?s Funeral: Performing a Postmodern Cinema of Attractions, by Yingjin Zhang3. Black Cannon Incident: Countering the Counterespionage Fantasy, by Jason McGrath4. Blind Shaft: Underground as Trope, by Jonathan Noble5. Boat People: Second Thoughts on Text and Context, by Julian Stringer6. Centre Stage: A Shadow in Reverse, by Bérénice Reynaud7. A Chinese Ghost Story: Ghostly Counsel and Innocent Man, by John Zou8. Chungking Express: Time and its Displacements, by Janice Tong9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Cultural Migrancy and Translatability, by Felicia Chan10. Crows and Sparrows: Allegory on a Historical Threshold, by Yiman Wang11. Durian, Durian: Defamiliarisation of the ?Real?, by Esther Cheung12. Ermo: (Tele)Visualizing Urban/Rural Transformation, by Ping Fu

13. Farewell My Concubine: National Myth and City Memories, by Yomi Braester14. Flowers of Shanghai: Visualizing Ellipses and (Colonial) Absence, by Gang Gary Xu15. Formula 17: Mainstream in the Margins, by Brian Hu16. The Goddess: Fallen Woman of Shanghai, by Kristine Harris17. Hero: The Return of a Traditional Masculine Ideal in China, by Kam Louie18. In The Mood for Love: Intersections of Hong Kong Modernity, by Audrey Yue19. Kekexili: Mountain Patrol?Moral Dilemma and a Man with a Camera, by Cui Shuqin20. Love Eterne: Almost a (Heterosexual) Love Story, by Tan See Kam and Annette Aw21. Not One Less: The Fable of a Migration, by Rey Chow22. The Personals: Backward Glances, Knowing Looks, and the Voyeur Film, by Margaret Hillenbrand23. PTU: Re-mapping the Cosmopolitan Crime Zone, by Vivian Lee24. The Red Detachment of Women: Resenting, Regendering, Remembering, by Robert Chi25. Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles: Redeeming the Father by Way of Japan? by Hui Xiao26. Spring in a Small Town: Gazing at Ruins, by Carolyn FitzGerald27. Suzhou River: Visual Fetishism and the Defamiliarisation of Shanghai, by Alexander C.Y. Huang28. A Time to Live, A Time to Die: A Time to Grow, by Corrado Neri